Autoblog plugin does not copy images to the local server.

I installed Autoblog plugin and I'm feeding a few RSS feeds into the blog with success. However, when the post have an image, the automatically created articles show the image being served from the original RSS feed server. How do I setup the plugin to automatically copy the images so I serve them locally?

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I installed Autoblog plugin and I'm feeding a few RSS feeds into the blog with success. However, when the post have an image, the automatically created articles show the image being served from the original RSS feed server. How do I setup the plugin to automatically copy the images so I serve them locally?

This is a great question and to the best of my knowledge it is not possible to do with Autoblog plugin alone.

Joe, the plugin you are suggesting wouldn't solve my problem. On a matter of fact, I've just find Add Linked Images to Gallery plugin which may solve my problem, but it's buggy and incompatible with Custom Upload Dir plugin I use. Apparently this plugins, combined with Autoblog, will do exactly what I'm looking for, but I lack the skills to fix the bug and make them compatible. I'm not as good of a developer as I wanted to be, so do you think is fixable? What do you suggest me doing?

The main problem here is trying to find a solution that will be compatible of course with your current sites plugins and do the duty of pulling those graphics into your site storing them and not linking to the source URL - very tricky.

At this point what I am going to do is bring in a higher authority - our lead developer to see if he has any comments or advise he can offer us to solve this issue.

It may take a little longer then a normal ticket but I'll see if I can get him in here asap.

I'll take a good look at this plugins, but apparently they are going to solve my problem, and as long they are compatible with Custom Upload Dir plugin, I'm very happy with that.

But I believe this is a significant missing feature for the current Auto Blog plugin. Considering there are many talented people working over WPMUDEV, I think that's going to be something piece of cake for you guys to work on. Hope it soon, just to make my life easier.

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